Indies rule!

Yesterday was the most perfect day ever. After sleeping late (that is, till 8:30 AM), a leisurely breakfast, and a mid-morning coffee stop at Peets, we went to San Ramon, where an amazing indie (independent, so not part of a chain like Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc) second-hand bookstore is located. A sign announced a huge book sale, and we came away with 13 new books for an great price. And believe me, we had to discard a lot of books to come up with 13 – if I’d had my way (and a bigger budget), we would have loaded up the backseat of the car. Among the winners were:

–Housekeeping Vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby–Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee–She Went All the Way by Meggin Cabot–We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates–The Cornish Trilogy (The Rebel Angels, What’s Bred in the Bone and The Lyre of Orpeheus) by Robertson Davies–The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox–Diary by Chuck Palahniuk–The Pieces from Berlin by Michael Pye–Julie and Romeo Get Lucky by Jeanne Ray

I’m especially looking forward to We Were The Mulvaneys and The Cornish Trilogy, but I have to finish The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) first (not that I mind, as it is a great book. Who’d think Death made such an agreeable narrator?) Elske and dad are off for a hike, I just came back from a very tiring but very rewarding run, and after a quick and cold shower I’ll sit on the deck for the rest of the afternoon. Summer doesn’t get better than this!